He also fairly publicly tried to use a “do you know who I am” to cut in front of hundreds of people (with his family while on a ski trip) at the Bozeman Montana airport once when a bunch of flights were delayed. Considering the average wealth and influence of that crowd, it did not go over at all. Security laughed in…

Because you’re wrong.

It’s only going to get worse as manuals age out and EVs and hybrids continue to take over. During the recession in the late aughts, I interviewed as a valet while waiting for a new contract to start and they hired me on the spot after I aced the manual hill test (starting on a garage ramp with the parking brake on).…

If I would have spent $1K on ceramic coating, yeah I would probably be mad. They fucked the front plate, burn the clutch and “something tells you the owner is exaggerating”?!? No the owner is caring about his car, gave clear instructions and some losers cant be bother acting right. But it looks like you are one of…

As I like to say - there are relatively few bad cars, but there are a HELL of a lot of lousy dealer service techs.

Did they offer to give him a new car? I missed that part. I mean getting a new car switch likely isn’t as simple as handing over the keys when you consider, taxes, tags, insurance, financing, but it would be a good faith move.

Yup to be sure. Our local Subaru dealer has been great to work with. They went out of their way to honor my third-party tire warranty and took care of all the paperwork and contacted the warranty company for me. I drove in, got two new tires and drove out. No charge except for “shop fees,” which weren’t that much and…

Yep, dash cams are great for that. However, one time I picked my car up from the dealer and found the dash cam was unplugged. When I complained, they said it was for “customer privacy” reasons and they had to do it. I could maybe see an argument for that, so I told them it was fine to disconnect it while it was…

For every one good dealer, there are a hundred terrible dealers.

You sure are making a lot of assumptions here. 

they do a good job of protecting the paint underneath but stuff like waxing, wiping with non-microfiber etc will mar up the coating. Technically your paint is still safe, but something you spent money on is damaged and the surfaces have marks until you redo it.

There it is, the one asshole that ends up blaming the victim. 

Unreasonable compensation - fixing everything they screwed up.

why when they have all of those free customer cars to practice on??

ADAB

So you rather forgive a scummy dealership and allow them to scam other customers? Yeah no, I’m glad the owner is going over this scummy dealership. Connecticut’s dealerships are full of swindlers as I’ve learned the past 2 years shopping for my car.

The ‘techs’ that do only oil changes or move the stuff around the lot and shop. It sounds better that we will have ‘the tech’ do it, rather than pointing out the kid vaping behind the stack of tires and said ‘well have Thad take care of you’

I was thinking the same thing.  What kind of tech who works on manual vehicles does not know how to operate one?  That blows my mind given that working on cars is significantly tougher than learning to drive a car with a manual transmission.

More like a rhetorical question, but hope the dude wins the lawsuit.

Couldn’t, wouldn’t, tomato-tomahto.